Here are the major events of my academic career. 日本語はこちら。
Compare with my music timeline here.
2023:
From 1 April: Assistant to the President, Head of the International Education Support Office.
End of my term as vice-dean, Institute of Japan Studies (March).
CD – Trio Concertante released.
2022:
Publication of War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan (co-edited with Takayoshi Yamamura, Routledge).
New website War Memory Tourism (WMT) opened.
2021:
Second term as vice-dean, Institute of Japan Studies, School of Japan Studies.
Publication of Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom in Japanese translation (co-edited with Takayoshi Yamamura, Hokkaido University Press).
2020:
Publication of Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom (co-edited with Takayoshi Yamamura, Channel View Publications) and New Frontiers in Japanese Studies (co-edited with Akihiro Ogawa, Routledge).
2019:
Vice-dean, Institute of Japan Studies, School of Japan Studies.
Start of JSPS Grant Project: “International comparative research into historical understanding and the consumption of war in contents tourism” (Grant Holder Takayoshi Yamamura).
Publication of Journal of War & Culture Studies special edition 12.1.
2018 (at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies):
Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
CD Philip Seaton – Chamber Works released. Opening of my music website.
2017:
Publication of Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to “Sacred Sites” of Popular Culture (with Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa Shimada, Kyungjae Jang、Cambria Press).
2016:
Hokkaido University President’s Award for Outstanding Research.
October to March 2017: Sabbatical.
2015:
Hokkaido University President’s Award for Outstanding Research, Hokkaido University President’s Award for Outstanding Education.
Publication of 2 edited volumes (both from Routledge): Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto/Sakhalin (with Svetlana Paichadze) and Local History and War Memories in Hokkaido.
Publication of Japan Forum special edition 27.1 (with Takayoshi Yamamura).
2014:
October: Hokkaido University’s Modern Japanese Studies Program accepts its first students on the Intensive Japanese Course (Bachelor’s degree begins in April 2015).
Start of JSPS Grant Project: “International comparative research on the spreading reception of culture via contents tourism”. Grant holder Philip Seaton, project co-leader Takayoshi Yamamura.
2012:
October: Move to the Office of International Affairs to set up the Modern Japanese Studies Program. Promotion to professor.
2011:
Start of JSPS Grant Project: “The Role of Returnees from Sakhalin in the Multiculturalism of Hokkaido“ (Grant Holder Svetlana Paichadze).
2009:
Publication of My Father’s Dying Wish (Paulownia Press).
2007:
Publication of Japan’s Contested War Memories (Routledge).
Associate Professor, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University.
2006:
Awarded the “Daiwa Japan Forum Prize” by the British Association for Japanese Studies.
Start of JSPS Grant: “War and Memory in Hokkaido: A Case Study in the Regional Remembering and Commemoration of World War II”. Grant Holder.
2004 (at Hokkaido University):
Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University.
July: Graduate from Sussex University (DPhil, Media and Cultural Studies)。
2002 (at the University of Tokyo):
Japanese government scholarship (University of Tokyo).
2000 (at University of Sussex):
Begin DPhil (from September).
1998 (at Nagaoka University of Technology):
Lecturer, Nagaoka University of Technology (until March 2001).
1996 (at University of Sussex):
MA, University of Sussex (International Relations).
1994 (JET Programme):
Assistant English Teacher, JET Programme (in Hyogo Prefecture).
1991 (at Cambridge University):
BA, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University (History).
Before 1991: in London
Until Sixth Form, mainly living in London.